Antiques & collectables: scientific & musical instruments books

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Chronicles the birth of the Canon, the famous Japanese brand, from its early days in the 1930s as the Kwanon to...  Read More >>

Family physician and artist Dr. C. Keith Wilber presents a hand-illustrated tour of medical history via the doctors'...  Read More >>

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Since the 1920s, the radio set has been an important part of most people's lives. In the thirties and forties, the...  Read More >>

Enter the fascinating and beautiful world of antique phonographs. Brimming with visual delights, this volume boldly...  Read More >>

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A reference to violin making, this work features a biographical dictionary of craftsmen, along with their signatures...  Read More >>

The Benton Fletcher collection, housed at Fenton House in London, contains an outstanding selection of early keyboard...  Read More >>

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Over 600 color photos display novelty transistor radios, including models shaped as airplanes, beer bottles, bugs,...  Read More >>

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Throughout the history of photography an amazing number of cameras have been designed and manufactured to look like...  Read More >>

Over 120 black and white photos and 175 patent drawing, charts, diagrams, and shematics trace the development of...  Read More >>

This far-reaching and absorbing book is designed to help identify and value woodwind instruments made in Europe...  Read More >>

An incredible variety of antique record players is documented, including those with external-horns as well as internal-horn...  Read More >>

Dartmouth Colleges collection of old scientific instruments ranges from precision machines - the most advanced...  Read More >>

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"The early history of recorded sound, Mr. Edison's most marvelous achievement, brimmed with graphic imagery – elegant,...  Read More >>

"The antique phonograph is the center of a beautiful, brilliant, and sometimes bizarre universe of accessories....  Read More >>

This large-format book is a catalogue of the sundials and other instruments which tell the time from the movement...  Read More >>

An invaluable guide for identifying and pricing more than 700 microcomputers made worldwide between 1971 and 1993....  Read More >>

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Since the earliest days of cameras and photography, the idea that an event or a person could somehow be frozen in...  Read More >>

Fascinating discussions of a full spectrum of companies, including Fender, Gibson, Harmony, Kay, Valco, Peavey,...  Read More >>